"You too have seen the sun a bird of fire Stepping on clouds across the golden sky, Have known man's envy and his weak desire, Have loved and lost. You, who are old, have loved and lost as I All that is beautiful but born to die, Have traced your patterns in the hastening frost. And you have walked u"
"Clown in the Moon My tears are like the quiet drift Of petals from some magic rose; And all my grief flows from the rift Of unremembered skies and snows. I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremendously like a dream."
"Oh, eagle-mouthed, I have come to pluck you, And take away your exotic plumage, Although your anger is not a slight thing, Take you into my own place Where the frost can never fall, Nor the petals of any flower drop."
"Since, on a quiet night, I heard them talk Who have no voices but the winds' Of all the mystery there is in life And all the mastery there is in death, I have not lain an hour asleep But troubled by their curious speech Stealing so softly into the ears. One says: There was a woman with no friend, An"
"For we are ordinary men, Sleep, wake, and sleep, eat, love, and laugh, With wide, dry mouths and eyes, Poor, petty vermin, Stink of cigarettes and armpits, Cut our figures, and retreat at night Into a double or a single bed, The same thoughts in our head. We are ordinary men, Bred in the dark behind"